— Archive for the ‘Job Search’ Category —

• The government does not create jobs, humans do.

  The government does not create jobs; just as officials don’t score touchdowns, museums don’t paint masterpieces or hospitals create children. — The act of creation is the act of taking risk.  You cannot create – you do not create – if you do not risk something. The launch of the iPod in 2001 was a [...]

  Sep 27

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• My hands are sweating and I can’t breathe

  They’ve asked you to “wait right here for just a bit” and now it’s a whole three minutes past when the interview was supposed to start and you’re trying (too hard) to read the tea leaves: does that mean it’s a done deal and they’re just putting the finishing touches on their generous offer? Or [...]

  Sep 26

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• Big week at TheLadders!

  What a week here at TheLadders! I spent the better part of Monday morning driving with fellow New Yorkers in TheLadders Career Cab.  While I love authoring a  weekly newsletter to ~5mm job seekers, there’s something special about one-on-one conversations with job seekers.  Every situation is unique.  Stay tuned for a video shortly, including a [...]

  Sep 22

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• Social discrimination and the old boys’ network

  As the CEO of TheLadders, I’ve been regularly reading the replies to my weekly newsletters over the past years. The more than 320,000 e-mails I’ve received have given me the opportunity to learn so much about the anxiety, the angst, the anger that go along with the job hunt. I’ve come to understand it’s as [...]

  Sep 22

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• What Google considers when updating the algorithm

  Interesting behind-the-scenes glimpse from Eric Schmidt’s testimony: To give you a sense of the scale of the changes that Google considers, in 2010 we conducted 13,311 precision evaluations to see whether proposed algorithm changes improved the quality of its search results, 8,157 side-by-side experiments where it presented two sets of search results to a panel of human testers [...]

  Sep 22

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• Bye-bye!

  We’re expanding, and today we say “bye bye” to helping only those over $100,000 and “hello” to helping all career-minded professionals. TheLadders now takes all salary levels and shows the right jobs to the right person. So while we’re saying goodbye to our narrower segmentation, we are not saying “goodbye” to keeping your job search [...]

  Sep 19

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• One-armed man knocks out kickboxer

  There are a lot of reasons why you might not want to be a kickboxer. You could be timid, you could not enjoy fighting, you could prefer kung fu, and so on. But let’s take one really obvious reason why you can’t be a good kickboxer: You only have one arm. You know, it’s great [...]

  Sep 12

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• Your LinkedIn invoice is 12x too big

  You’re pressed for time, pressed for budget, pressed to just get the position filled. So why would you use a solution that takes twelve times as long and costs twelve times as much to source a qualified candidate? We ran a six-month test across 33 recruiters — all paying clients of both TheLadders and LinkedIn [...]

  Sep 7

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• “Get back!” to work

  Good Labor Day morning to you! Well here we are at Labor Day! When it’s time to get back into the swing of things, we can take a page from The Beatles. It was January of 1969, and The Beatles were a mess. The recording of an album tentatively titled ‘Get Back’ was meant to [...]

  Sep 5

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• Closeable candidates: do you need somebody today?

  The internet means you can keep tabs on grandma’s vacation, the kids’ soccer schedules, and your college friends’ loves, losses and lives with ease. It is so easy to find out anything about anybody you know! What’s tougher is your job. Sure, it’s getting easier for everybody to find anybody, but the trouble is… how [...]

  Aug 31

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